A MIND'S-EYE MAP OF AMERICA 



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I had rather have the school teacher 

 than to have all the newspapers and mov- 

 ing pictures and organizations and con- 

 gresses and all else combined, because 

 she can sow the seed in ground that is 

 fallow. And what status do we give to 

 her ? With what dignity do we treat her ? 

 What deference do we pay to her? So- 

 cially, where is she? 



If you love this country, if you believe 

 that you are a good American, see that 

 the teacher gets an adequate salary, see 

 that she gets proper recognition ! For 

 all of life is not money. The intangible 

 things are the things for which most 

 people fight and that are of most value. 

 And there is no better illustration of that 

 than the city of Washington, to which 

 people are drawn largely because of 

 those intangible things, not the least of 

 which is our vanity, our love of dis- 

 tinction. 



OUR INDIAN SCHOOLS 



I sometimes think that our Indian 

 schools in places are better than some of 

 our schools nearer home. We teach the 

 Indian boy to raise four kinds of grain 

 upon a plot of ground, to shoe a horse, 

 to build a shack, and he comes out of 

 that school not only knowing a little read- 

 ing, writing, and arithmetic, but knowing 

 how to make his living. He is not called 

 away and told to fight for himself with- 

 out any tools, without a sword in his 

 hand. 



We have Indian schools in which we 

 teach the girls how to care for them- 

 selves and others. We have little cot- 

 tages. We put two girls in a cottage. 

 Those girls each month must produce a 

 hat and a dress and do all their own 

 cooking ; and they must cultivate a garden 

 patch and learn how to care for a sick 

 baby and a sick woman. 



In Oklahoma we have a group of In- 

 dians who are the richest people in all 

 this world, with an income of $20,000 a 

 year per family. They are not the very 

 best Indians that we have. I don't like 

 to say that ; but it is true, because they 

 have too much money and they don't 

 have to work. 



But down here in North Carolina we 

 have a group of Cherokees for whom 

 nothing has ever been done, and I hope 

 nothing will ever be done for them. 



There has not been an illegitimate birth 

 for forty years in that reservation. It 

 has fine upstanding, self-respecting, well 

 educated farmers and herders. 



Way down in Florida are the Semi- 

 noles, who fought us 100 years ago. To- 

 day they raise cattle and are contented. 

 I was offered a million acres of land by 

 the State of Florida if I would drain it, 

 and I wanted it badly, because I wanted 

 it for the soldier boys. I had the thought 

 that when this war was over we could 

 make great use of those lands. And we 

 could, if we had acted in time and had a 

 bit of foresight; if there was not so 

 much politics in this world, and it did not 

 take so many men so much time to realize 

 what ought to be done. 



THE CHALLENGE TO WOMAN 



We are not going to be happy cluttered 

 together in houses banked up against 

 each other in cities. That is not the nor- 

 mal, natural life for us. We are not to 

 have cities made of apartments and 

 boarding-houses and hotels and produce 

 the good, husky Americanism that has 

 fought our wars and made this country 

 and developed those lands that I have 

 been talking about. The thing that is big 

 within us is the creative instinct, and the 

 challenge that is up to woman is to stimu- 

 late and develop that in man. 



Every man feels the desire to get down 

 into the soil and wrestle with it and make 

 it yield to him. It is a part of the instinct 

 that God implanted at the time when He 

 ousted man from the luxury of the Gar- 

 den of Eden ; and he has been marching 

 round the globe making that conquest 

 ever since. 



Now, because of the lure of pleasure, 

 because of the moving-picture shows, 

 and because of the desire to get close to- 

 gether, man is deserting the farm. When 

 I was born, 70 per cent of our people 

 lived in the country; now not more 

 than 50. 



THE PLAN FOR THE BOYS EROM THE 

 OTHER SIDE , 



If that movement goes on, we are not 

 going to have the America that we have 

 had — that has been vibrant, fibrous, 

 strong, self-dependent, resourceful. 



So I wanted those boys when they 

 came back from the other side to liave a 



